This post is a RFC for any ideas on things to do using Lisp (any Lisp, Scheme, Common Lisp, Clojure — I don't care) and I don't feel as if any responses have to be tailored for me but can be suitable for the HN community at large.<p>If anyone wants to get an idea of where I am coming from though: I've spent most of my paid time using Python, Java, Rust, C#, and a bunch of scripting in Ruby and Bash. While my experience is skewed towards backend development I'd consider myself predominantly a generalist and have written my fair share of React/Solid.js/Angular by now. The domains/fields have been finance, enterprise applications, machine learning & AI, and generic web-application stuff.<p>Nowadays, it's mostly Rust, Postgres, Solid.js, and GraphQL that get the job done.<p>The idea I've had has been to do some dumb things with the Spotify API that I'd have some utility for but it's so simple it feels like an errand.<p>Another idea, but that was more for message-passing in Erlang (or Elixir) was about having a more or less emergent Pokémon clone wherein the Pokémon will fight each other in the wild and evolve and perhaps have maturity cycles during which they reproduce etcetera.<p>The third is to chomp through Lisp In Small Pieces.<p>All "fine" ideas, but as of yet I haven't felt any pull to me.<p>People more well-versed in Lisps, is there anything that'd be a joy to do that we other plebeians might consider a headache with our current toolbox?
See these books<p><a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html</a><p>and<p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Paradigms-Artificial-Intelligence-Programming-Studies/dp/1558601910" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.amazon.com/Paradigms-Artificial-Intelligence-Pro...</a>